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"Quality Issues"??? Rejection??? What???

Forum|Forum|11 months ago
April 16, 2025
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oleschwander

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Lighting in the first one is bad. The second one is cropped to tight above.

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Ed PrintzAuthor

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With all due respect, thanks for your feedback. The "Lighting" you are referring to in the first image was shot at actual sunset in a dark desert setting, using ambient light. It is nighttime. It is well into twilight. It is freaking dark. The lighting is natural light. While it is true, that I might have attempted to add artificial brightness to the image during editing, I chose not to do that. If I had added fake lighting to it, some of the natural detail shown would have diminished. As far as the second image, yes, I see that the top of the cactus is cut off.

Abambo

Community Expert

The sunset/rise picture is definitly too noisy:

Noise is everywhere, I just took this excerpt. That may be addressed probably easily. And then it's indeed slightly underexposed, which normally should not be a huge issue to correct, but I do not know what corrections have been applied for now.

The second shows a well exposed overall picture, but the contrast could be enhanced and the shadows lighten up. Then you may have done a bit too much with sharpening, as the Cactus shows an outline around.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

RALPH_L

Community Expert

I agree with @Jill_C thgat the sky is too noisy. I disagree with @daniellei4510 about the first photo. I think it is underexposed and that is why the sky has excessive noise. If you lighten the exposure you can see a huge chunk where all details are lost.

The second image has a halo arround the large cactus and you need to put a top on it so that it is not cut off.

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Ed PrintzAuthor

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Thanks Ralph. I’d like to see some of your stuff, so I can clearly see a
definition of what’s acceptable.

Ed Printz

Abambo

Community Expert

I agree, the daylight front cactus should be completely in the frame. That would have allowed for adding sky, if needed. I often have the situation, when I adapt a picture o a fixed frame in a brochure or similar, that I need to add sky, which is today an easy task to do. But only if there are no cutoff elements in the picture.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

daniellei4510

Community Expert

The first one looks great to me, but an inexperienced moderator might incorrectly determine it was underexposed.

Adobe Community Expert | If you can't fix it, hide it; if you can't hide it, delete it.

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Ed PrintzAuthor

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Thank you. I thought my eyes were deceiving me. So, they actually pay these
judges to make wrong determinations?… I’ve already submitted about a dozen
equally clear in resolution, composition, and sizing….these “judges” have
rejected virtually every one….What a country!!🤣🤣

Ed Printz

Abambo

Community Expert

So, they actually pay thesejudges to make wrong determinations?…
By @Ed Printz

They are humans. Humans err. But not here.

And they err more often on the other side, accepting assets that should get a refusal. At least that is what we see numerous times, when people complain that this picture passed and that other one got refused.

And you have to know, moderators do not need to check all of the asset. They refuse at the very first error they see. The more errors you have in your picture, the easier their task is. And to point to oine of your errors: noise is easy to see. So your first, without the noise could have passed, even that it is slightly underexposed.

Don't get me wrong, I love noise in pictures. I often add it to give a picture a certain look and feel. But that's something I can do as a buyer. It's easier to start with a clinical clean asset in such a case...

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

Jill_C

Community Expert

These are both beautiful images. They could use just a touch of noise reduction to soften the noise in the sky.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer

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Ed PrintzAuthor

Participating Frequently

Thanks for your input. I’ve submitted some others that have equally clear
resolution, composition and sizing. They get rejected for “quality” issues.
I understand the need to have high standards, but these folks appear to be
really into themselves.

Ed Printz

Abambo

Community Expert

They get rejected for “quality” issues.I understand the need to have high standards, but these folks appear to bereally into themselves.Ed Printz
By @Ed Printz

You need to check your assets like a (good) moderator does. No noise, correct white balance, nice histogram, sharp, but not oversharpened, chromatic aberration corrected, good composition.

The "problem" here is that they are really good in checking real photos. So they see the slightest deviation from the ideal.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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